Garment clasp



R. C. lSAAC GARMENT CLASP Jan. 16, 1940.

Filed Jan. 15, 1938 Patented Jan. 16, 1940 UNITED}. STATES PATENT orrics 1 Claim.

Another object is to insure flatness and also relative breadth of clamping surface, thus avoiding gripping the hosiery at a relatively restricted point where the tension and strain is very apt to break the thread and cause a snap or run in the hosiery.

Still another object is to provide a grip which will stand sidewise pulling, or in other words from all angles, and in which the stocking can be released only by pushing up the loop in order to unfasten it or release the grip.

With the foregoing objects in view, my present invention consists in two loops and a link pivoted or hinged to both loops and one of the loops sufficiently smaller in size than the other so that it can be passed therethrough with a portion of the hosiery grip, and then pushed endwise to a point where it is held with the portion of the stocking gripped against accidental detachment from the stocking.

In the accompanying drawing:

Fig. 1 is a view in perspective of the clasp;

Fig. 2 shows clasp applied to the hose;

Fig. 3 is a face view of the clasp in its first position;

Fig. 4 is a section on line 4-4 of Fig. 3;

Fig. 5 is a view similar to Fig. 3, showing the position of parts when the hose is fastened:

Fig. 6 is a section on line 6--6 of Fig. 5;

Fig. '7 is an enlarged section through the point of intersection or crossing of the wire.

This invention consists of loops a and b and a connecting link 0. These are all three connected together by the hinges d and e.

Loop a is sufliciently large to permit loop 2) to pass through it with the portion of the garment by swinging on the hinge or pivot d.

Loop a is preferably made of a single wire bent at the center to form a pintle f for the hinge d, and from the ends of the pintle the wire is preferably bent away substantially at right-angles with the pintle, and bowed outwardly slightly as shown at g to form a clearance space, for the nesting of the loop b when the stocking has been gripped, so as to bring the major portion of the two loops at and 1) into a substantially straight line, as shown in Fig. 4, where the portion of the stocking gripped. and the gripping means rest flat against the leg of the wearer, this being one of the purposes of the invention, namely to provide not only a dependable fastening easy to manipulate with a spread-out gripping area, but also at the same time presenting a flat inconspicuous fastening which prevents an objectionable raised point under the outer garment.

The most convenient way to fasten the grip to the edge of the stocking is to insert the loop I) and connecting link 0 beneath the stocking s until the edge of the latter comes approximately to the hinge d. The loop I) and connecting link 0 are then swung upwardly on the pintle f as a pivot and through the larger loop a carrying the fabric with it, whereupon the loop b is pressed downwardly swinging on the hinge e, thus bringing the connecting link 0 below the link I] and substantially in alignment with the loop I) as illustrated in dotted lines in Figs. 2 and 3 and in full lines and in section in Fig. 4. Thus the pull and tension on the garter h and the stretching of the stocking s and the pressure created against the wearers leg makes a dependable fastening, which cannot become accidentally undone.

To unfasten the stocking, the movement of the part is reversed by pushing up on the lower end of the links 0 and the loops b and pressing them through the larger link a.

In Fig. 4 and in enlarged section in Fig. 5, the flattening of the wire is shown where they cross each other at the intersection m. This is done in the interest of flattening out the device at that point where it would be otherwise doubly thick. If desired, the wire might be permanently fastened at this intersecting or crossing point a.

I claim:

A device of the character described including two loops of different size, one end of each loop constricted and having pintles connecting their sides, and an hour-glass shaped link having its opposite ends hingedly connected to the pintles of the loops, one of the loops being of sufficient size to permit the other loop and the connecting link to swing therethrough on the pintle of the larger loop as an axis, the larger loop bowed outwardly at the juncture between the larger and the constricted ends thereof, whereby the said ends of the larger loop are in different planes, the smaller loop bent inwardly to conform to and clear the edges of the connecting link, the length of the smaller loop from its pintle to its free end approximately corresponding to the distance between the outwardly bowed portion of the larger loop plus the length of the connecting link, whereby the free end of the, smaller loop is adapted to rest within the bowed portion of the larger loop and be held in that position substantially in the plane of the larger end of the larger loop by the tension of the hose when fastened by the garter.

ROBERT C. ISAAC. 

